[Coco] Radio Shack Files Chapter 11

[Chad H]

Quote from that article ...

"RadioShack didn’t leave fixers; the fixers left RadioShack. Our TVs don’t come with vacuum tubes anymore, and woe to the enterprising owner who cracks open his flatscreen to fix a dead pixel. There’s nothing we can fix about our iPhones, really. An entire generation of inventors and innovators grew up taking things apart and putting them back together; now we tinker with apps and services, not the hardware that runs them."

Really!!!???  They must not know anything about the CoCo community that got their computers from Radio Shack and have tinkered with the hardware for years, taking them apart and putting them back together..and will go on doing so!!   BTW, we are the same peole who DO crack open our flatscreen TV to reflow a connection/IC to correct picture issues, or fix our iPhones/Androids by cracking them open and replacing screens, etc.   Long live the hardware tinkers for we come from the land of CoCos!

-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of K. Pruitt
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 8:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [Coco] Radio Shack Files Chapter 11

Good article "How Radio Shack Helped Build Silicon Valley" on Wired:

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/radioshack-helped-build-silicon-valley/

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Subject: [Coco] Radio Shack Files Chapter 11


>   Sad day for CoCo fans...
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>   [1]http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2015/02/05/radioshack-files-fo
>   r-chapter-11-bankruptcy/
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